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Actors on Guard provides the historical, theoretical and practical basis for understanding everything the actor needs to know in preparing for and presenting any stage fight. Actors on Guard : deals specifically with the use of the single rapier and the dagger, the most popular weapons used in staged fights provides illustrations to clarify descriptions of movement, and show the proper placement of the body and blade outlines the history of sword play and the masters of fence provides a chronology of swords, identifies all the parts of the sword, and details proper care, cleaning and handling

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Dale Anthony Girard is an award winning Fight Director with over 12 years' experience in the field. He is a senior member of the Society for American Fight Directors (SAFD), and one of only ten Fight Masters recognized by the SAFD in the United States. Mr. Girard spent five years on the faculty at the National Theatre Conservatory and is presently resident Fight Director for Yale's prestigious School of Drama and School of Music's Opera Program.

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